Owen Lovejoy Short Quotes

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The estimation of the Democratic Party is iniquity!

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I warn you, be careful and consider the consequences of your vote.

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The Constitution is a piece of rotten parchment that ought to be trodden under foot.

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The equality of the human race is the pivot upon which our government rests and resolves.

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The doors will be forever barred and bolted against those miserable Democrats who scoff the rights of man.

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I love the Constitution. It is enshrined in my heart. I love it better than any dozen Democrats in the land do tonight.

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I always defended it and always will, whether it be against the Democrats who pervert it, or the dis-unionists who trample on it.

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Now comes the objection which you hear in the mouths of Democrats everywhere. Negro equality! Negro equality! The 'Black Republicans' are in favor of negro equality!

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You say this is horrid. I know it is horrid. I know it is horrid to hold men in slavery. I know it is horrid to doom four million human beings to condition of chattels.

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The testimony of all religious societies in the slave states is that the slaves are heathen and it is an utter impossibility to Christianize them and civilize them by this process.

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I poured on a rainstorm of fire and brimstone as hot as I could, and you know something of what that is. I believe that I never said anything more savage in the pulpit or on the stump.

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